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Friday, October 29, 2010

Quilt Festival

This fun 40"x56" I-Spy quilt is the result of 76 different I-Spy fabrics -- ALL SCRAPS. I am obsessed with I-Spy, and have kept all the skinny little leftover bits from my swap fabrics. The result was a huge pile of strips -- I still have at least this many more!

I dove into this project without a plan. First I laid out all the strips and created two piles: boyish and girly. Then I separated the boyish ones by width. I cut matching widths from some white fabric I had on hand and sewed both ends of one 20" strip to both ends of each strip, creating a loop. Then I cut the white strip randomly so I would end up with varying lengths of white on either side of each strip.

I laid them out how I liked them, sewed them together, trimmed the excess white fabric away, and added more I-Spy borders.

I had this cute doggy print on hand, but it was just a few inches shy of being the right size for the backing. No problem -- I created a strip with more scraps for the back, bordering it with some black fabric scraps for some POP.

I had everything on hand except for that 1/4 yard of tiny doggy paw prints that I purchased for the super skinny binding -- and that only set me back about $1.50. Not bad for an entire baby quilt!

I really enjoy the process of making quilts without a pattern or a plan -- not to mention the challenge of using only what I have on hand. There's just something about it that really tickles my creative side! I can't wait to do it again!